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Barley Hall in York holds a very special place in my heart. So Prison Widow is going to get soppy for a minute. The card was specially drawn for me in the USA. Thank you to the artist; Bulldog; and thank you to my gorgeous Aaron for making this Valentine's Day a special one.
The art work has been acknowledged by Barley Hall itself and has been passed to the management team there.
On behalf of myself and every one here at Prison Widow UK; I would like to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day and thoughts go out to everyone who has a loved one in prison.

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Glenn Langohr has a purpose: he writes to shine a light inside our prison systems and to help others turn their lives around. He draws on personal experience. Glenn Langohr ran away from a broken home with a death wish and entered the drug war with abandon. Business with the Mexican Mafia and Hell's Angels became a way of life until the Criminal Justice system interrupted him with Organized Crime charges. In prison he was involved in riots and spent years in the hole. From solitary confinement he started writing and hasn't stopped since. Now, he is an usher at his church and loves to reach out to other prisoners to help them turn their lives around. He speaks as a guest Lecturer at Criminal Justice colleges and writes articles for newspapers. "I want to show the world and the students and leaders of tomorrow, that we are only building bigger criminals by locking up low level offenders. In prison, an addiction is bred into an affliction much harder to escape."

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Many of our supporters here at Prisoners Families Voices truly admired Sandies work and to say she will be sadly missed is an understatement.
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If you’ve been in any type of addiction treatment program or support group, you’ve likely heard about mindfulness more than a dozen of times. The word is often tossed around in our culture today, but its origins date back hundreds of years to Buddhist meditation. In Buddhism, mindfulness (the English translation of the Pali word Sati) is considered to be the first step towards enlightenment.
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I have a son who has recently been released from prison and by the looks of it; will be going back soon. I call it human-warehousing because let's have it right here; the government don't want to reduce to re-offending and the private clinks certainly don't want to be out of pocket.
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Hello. I am 17 years old and my sister is 9. Our dad is always in prison and every time he gets released; he always says that he is never going back; but he always does.
I have spent all my life visiting dad in prison and on weekends where I should be doing fun things like normal families; I was in a prison visiting room with nothing much to say. My dad and mum did all the talking and I felt like a spare part like I shouldn't have been there.
My sister goes with mum now visiting dad and when she comes home all she does is cry. I don't know how to make it better for her because I know how she feels. I love my dad because he is my dad but he has never been a normal dad and me and my sister have never spent any quality with him. He misses our birthdays and Christmas and we have never had a family holiday.
I was wondering if there is anywhere where me and my sister could get some support?